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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY CRAIG GOLDING/ALLSPORT AUSTRALIA Unwavering An unidentified water-skier, practicing for a competition in Liverpool, Australia, performs barefoot, backward and upside down.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY JEAN MARC MOUCHET/DPPI Cyclotic Covered with mud from head to wheelbase, competitors from Great Britain (left) and Spain (right) fly over a hill during the Grand Prix sidecar race in France.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY JEAN MARC MOUCHET/DPPI Waterflogged Because of a delay in the start of the 12th Foulees du Gois, a 4,300-meter event run mostly along a paved road on the Brittany coast island of Noirmoutier, runners had to complete the race against a rising tide.